A Reflection for the Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless

Before faith becomes a list of what is believed, it is an actual experience of the living God. Our emotions, desires, joys or sorrows are, as we say, touched by grace.

Refusing to raise the cap on our national debt would not lead to reduced government spending. But it would endanger economies all over the world.

“The march has always been about an end to Roe, but it’s also about an end to abortion.”

New guidance and policies on ministering to people experiencing gender dysphoria released Jan. 16 by the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, call for compassion and coherence with the church’s teaching on gender and identity.

In his second general audience on evangelization, Pope Francis explains how Jesus is a model of evangelization, whose "pastoral heart beats for the person who is lost and far away."

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

Sister André, a Catholic convert raised in a Protestant family, was born Lucile Randon Feb. 11, 1904. She lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and through 10 pontificates.

John LaFarge, S.J., a longtime editor at America, was also one of the nation's leading advocates for racial justice beginning in the 1920s.

Jordan Peterson has gained celebrity by offering strategies for coping with modernity. But his fellow Canadian, the Jesuit Bernard Lonergan, offered strategies that were more holistic in nature and incorporated the whole community.

This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Jeanne Mancini, the president of the National March for Life since the fall of 2012, about the future of the the pro-life movement.

Authorities say Sunday's bombing in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province, killed at least 14 people and injured more than 60.

Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern Congo.

A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael O’Loughlin

Pope Francis imparted the final blessing at the funeral of Cardinal Pell, who decried his papacy as a “catastrophe.”

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot, by Zac Davis

A Reflection for Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

Mel Gibson's past history of antisemitic remarks and behavior means holding him up as a leader is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.

This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with John Carr, founder of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, about Pope Benedict’s under-appreciated contributions to Catholic social teaching.